Improvement in saw-set



i To all whom. it may concern l l tinted sans Janus MonroN, or IHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

Letters Patent No. 103,359, dated .May 24, 1870.

IMPRCVEMENT IN SAW-SET.y

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The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patenten@ making part of the same.

V,Bc it `known that I, JAMES Mon'roN, ot' the city and county of .Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, havcin'vented acertain new` andnseful Improvement in an implement used for setting the teeth ot' saws, knownin the` arts as aSaw-set; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description `thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and Vletters of reference marked thereon.

The nature of my invention consists in` the combiiv nation of an anvil or blt of convex-tace uwith an ob-` lique opposing steel bit or set, and connected with a pair of pliers, provided with suitable adjustable gnages p to adapt it to the size of the teeth ot' the saw to be set, and the amount of set or lateral bending of'the `teeth that may be desired, they being soarrauged that, when' in use, a.peculiari-drawing motion between the saw-tooth and thc oblique bit, renders the correct setting of teeth` easy and certain. And, besides this, my invention includes some minor'de'tails in its construction.` 4 l Figure 1 shows an elevation of this implement.

Figure 2 showsth'e `under sidethereof, and l Figure 3l theupper side thereof.

The same letters of reference apply to 4the same partsn thelseveralvigures.v

A `and `B respectively represent the upper and lower jaws of a pair ot pliers, having handles G and D, and `nnitedby a substantial joint at E.

It is most convenient, although not essential, to

'have aspriug in the joint E, or between the handles l C `and-1), to open the pliers, so that x the operator in nsingthcm has only to close them.

VIn the lower jaw B I fastensecnrely the anvil F, the upper surface ot which is a segment of a cylinder `ot' small diameter, having the axis parallel with the axis `of thejointEr luto the sidelorjcenter of the upperjaw `A I insert, in a tapering -dovetaihthe bit G, the working-face H' I of which bit is a plane 4parallel `to the axis of the anvil F,.andiis a tangent toa circle concentric with the joint E, and of aboutone-half the radius fof the are in `which the bit G moves. i

`The workingffacc of the bit (l should not be wider motion is produced in direction of' from H toward l,

this tendingfto draw the saw toward the joint E.

vThe bit G is retained in the tapering dovetail slot in thc jaw A by means vot' a key, N, passing in aslot o1' groove' in the side of' the bit G and resting in the jaw A. y

` To regulate the distance to which the.`v saw M may, in this manner, be drawn in, I attach an adjustable guage, K 5K, by meaus'ot a screw, L, passing through a slot in K, and screwed into the jaw B,`and may t-hus bc adj usted to suit any dept-l1 o f saw-tooth required.

.By means of a thumb-screw, O, passing through,

it 'is'technically called by mechanics, the set of the saw, is determined. 4.

.It will be readily seen upon inspection, and from the foregoing description, that the saw-teeth are drawn in toward the gauge K without any special care on the part of' the workman, and it is found, in practice, that byv rstspringing the tooth down by a drawing movement,- and then compressing it, as when the bit and anvil are-firmly pressed on the `saw-plate, the liability to break the the teeth oft" is less than with any saw-sets heretofore known. p p

I do notclaim as my invention any'of the several elements or parts of my invention, they appearing separately in various contrivances for the saine use, but

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure as such by Letters Patent-,'iso The saw-set herein described, consisting ot' thejaws A B, the convet-anvil F, and oblique-faced bit `G, having -a drawing movement and provided with gauges, eithermljusiable or otherwise, asfshownand described.

' i JAMES MORTON.

Witnesses:

JpHN B. Dnvlxn, WM. F. Jonsson. 

